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I have drywood teremites in my kitchen cabinets…they were in the cabinets when they were installed. The whole house structure is built with pressure treated wood, so I know that they are only in the cabinets. No one is living in the house at this time and the kitchen has two doors on either side, so easy to block off the kitchen to the rest of the house. Could I set up mulitiple bombs in the kitchen cabinets and shut the kitchen doors and leave the house for a few days? Would this work? I really do not want to tent the entire house at this time.

The bad thing with foggers is that they only kill pests that are crawling on the surface. The termites hide deep inside the wood. Using the bug bombs will kill some termites that get into the contact with it, but it will not solve the problem.
You can try bug bomb if the infestation is low, and if they are very close to the surface, you may be able to get rid of them. Hope that helps.

So what do recommend for treatment of a localized infestation? I also have them in my cabinets, and digging a trench around my house and using Termidor around the outside of my house isn’t going to solve that problem. They are ONLY in that specific area. They are not in the wall, so I can’t drill into the wall and fill it with foam. I need something that works in a specific location.

You should take the help of an exterminator. Before that, use termite bombs to kill those which are on the surface. Use wet cardboard boxes to attract them, and kill them when they settle on it. Use borax or sprays to kill them.

What do you recommend in the above mentioned situation? There is no space in the wall to insert an insecticide foam. I have the same problem, very localized in a cabinet, no where else and no where to drill a hole and insert foam. And digging a perimeter around the house? They are already inside the house, they came from elsewhere, inside the cabinets. They are not getting in the house, they are already inside the house!

In your situation, I’ll recommend taking the help of exterminators because if they are already present in your house, then only one method may not be sufficient to deal with them. If you want to fight these pests on your own, then you need to use more than one method at a time like using termite foggers for those which are outside, use cardboard traps to attract them, use Termidor to stop them from reaching to other parts of your house.

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